Altar Mountain
| Altar Mountain | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Altar Mountain is a more than 2000 m high and distinctive mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises up in the Quartermain Mountains at the southern end of the Arena Valley .
The mountain is unnamed in a map by the British geologist Hartley T. Ferrar (1879–1932) from 1907. Participants in the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1958-1959) gave it a descriptive name because of its stepped profile and its flattened summit and the related similarity to sacrificial sites of the Aztecs and Maya .
Web links
- Altar Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Altar Mountain on geographic.org (English)